VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

I'm about to install VMware ESXi on a new HP DL380p g8 server. This server will not be connected to a SAN. It's a lab box used by about a dozen people, and does not run mission critical software. We ...

In a previous article, I discussed the release of VMware's ESXi on Arm Fling. In this article, I will give an overview of my experience installing it. The ESXi on Arm Fling site has a list of ...

I have a pair of nice servers that I'm going to install ESXi [and subsequentially, hopefully, HP VSA]. Each server has 12 disks and a nice RAID card [one areca, one 3ware] Unfortunately it appears at ...

After reading about what NVIDIA GRID vGPU can do in a recent article, you may think that it would be difficult to install and configure. But while installing the GRID vGPU manager software requires a ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went ...